News – April 2020

Government troops recovered an improvised explosive device (IED), high-powered firearms, and other war materiel following a clash against a group of New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Zamboanga del Sur, officials said Wednesday.
Lt. Col. Manaros Boransing, the Army’s 97th Infantry Battalion commander, said the firefight broke out on Tuesday while the troops were responding to ...

Eighty-two Iraqi civilians were killed and 120 injured between January 1 and April 15 as a result of the conflict between the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and Islamic State (ISIS) militants, the ministry of defense acknowledged on Tuesday evening.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic and coalition withdrawal from several bases across the country, the ISF has conducted ...

A premature explosion killed four Taliban militants who were busy making a bomb inside a mosque in South-eastern Ghazni province.
The provincial government in a statement said the militants were busy making a bomb when the explosion took place, leaving at least four militants dead.
The statement further added that the incident took place in Andar district ...

As the world is dealing with COVID-19, Spangdahlem Air Base is being proactive in coping with the virus. One way Spangdahlem AB is adapting is by using 3-D printers to make face shield frames.
“A face shield is a plastic barrier above a face mask which helps protect the eyes and face of the wearer from ...

A former British rapper and notorious Islamic state suspect has been arrested in Spain, judicial sources said on Wednesday.
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, a former rapper from west London who once posted an image of himself holding a severed head on Twitter, has been arrested in the southern coastal city of Almeria, the source said.
Police had on Tuesday announced ...

Police say they seized a batch of circuit boards that were of a similar design to those installed in two remote-controlled devices found in December
A 20-year-old postsecondary student has been arrested in connection with the manufacture of two powerful home-made bombs that were hidden on a Hong Kong school campus in December, police say.
At the ...

Israel thwarted several terror attacks in Jerusalem, including at the country’s largest soccer stadium, the Shin Bet security services announced on Wednesday.
The Shin Bet arrested three Hamas members last month who planned to carry out attacks against Israel Defense Forces’ soldiers near Ramallah and at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem that can hold more than ...

An explosion took place close to the convoy of the vehicles of Khost governor Mohammad Halim Fidai in South-eastern Khost province earlier today.
A government source privy of the development said the incident took place earlier today as Mr. Fidai was on his way to his office.
The source further added that the explosion left at least ...

American Senator Bob Menendez is fighting to save the the demining program in Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), and you can support the online campaign by urgeing your Senators to join the letter․
In a video published on Twitter, Kristen Stevens, Government Affairs Manager at the HALO Trust, says that right now Senator Menendez is fighting in Congress to ensure funding for the organization’s life-saving demining program ...

Hong Kong’s police chief received an improvised explosive device at his headquarters on Monday, though no one was injured and evacuation was deemed unnecessary.
At an afternoon press briefing, police said the attack represented an “open challenge” and warned against home-grown terrorism, saying the device was similar to ones used by overseas terror groups.
The home-made bomb ...

A controlled explosion has been carried out in Hastings after an unexploded munition was found at a house in the town.
Police said the the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) was called to destroy the item in a field off the West Hill, Hastings.
The controlled explosion was carried out at around 8.20am on Monday (April 20).
Police said ...

As the world is paralyzed by the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), some violent non-state actors have welcomed the global pandemic as an opportunity to push their propaganda and ideology, and perhaps to strike at their perceived foes. White supremacist extremists see the pandemic as confirmation of many of the movement’s preexisting beliefs, and as ...

At least six civilians were wounded in a car bombing in Syria’s northwest city of Afrin that has been under the control of Turkish-backed militias for just over two years, local sources said on Saturday.
The explosion occurred near a recently established bridge in the center of Afrin city, by a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBEID) ...

Wayne Rendle, 34, of Nettleton Garth in Burstwick, East Yorkshire has been sent for trial at Hull Crown Court accused of possession of cannabis, making an improvised explosive device, criminal damage and possession of an improvised explosive device. He will appear for trial on May 13 this year.
Daniel Thomas , 51, of Nornabell Street in Hull attended Hull ...

On Monday, four deminers from the Estonian Defense Forces and one engineer commander from the 1st Infantry Brigade will be sent to Afghanistan on a new mission.
Estonians serve in Afghanistan as part of the German contingent in Mazar-e-Sharif, the General Staff of the Defense Forces announced on Saturday.
“The demining mission is Estonia’s oldest combat mission ...

Nine members of the Iraqi security forces and two civilians were injured on Saturday in four separate attacks by the so-called Islamic State in the central province of Diyala.
According to a statement released by the Iraqi army, an explosion at a residence led to the injury of six soldiers in the Khaylania neighborhood of Miqdadiya, ...

The infantry community has a problem. The centerpiece of the Army’s operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the infantry brigade combat team, is in danger of becoming obsolete in the face of near-peer opponents.
This formation of three infantry battalions, an engineer battalion, an artillery battalion, a cavalry squadron, and a support battalion needs to be restructured to maximize ...

An improvised explosive device was discovered and dealt with in Lathrop on Thursday, authorities say.
The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office says they got a call late in the morning about a suspicious device near the picnic tables outside the Lathrop Senior Center. The caller said the device looked like a small bottle with a wire ...

The Royal Navy has found and blown up a eight bombs in the English Channel as part of a NATO mission.
An RN spokesperson said: “Minehunter HMS Grimsby has completed her spring stint with a NATO task force after a two-week search for wartime ammunition off the French coast.
“Eight unexploded bombs and mines from World War ...

Twenty-five years ago, a truck bomb detonated in front of a federal building, killing at least 168 people and injuring more than 680 people. How did enterprise security change after the event?
At 9:02 a.m., on the morning of April 19, 1995, a truck bomb, containing more than 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, nitromethane and ...

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